10-letter words containing c, i, s, o, e
- cienfuegos — a port in S Cuba, on Cienfuegos Bay. Pop: 147 000 (2005 est)
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- cis person — a person who is cisgender or cissexual.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- clogginess — The state or quality of being cloggy.
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
- cloistress — a nun
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cloudiness — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- coalescing — Present participle of coalesce.
- coalfields — Plural form of coalfield.
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- cobwebsite — (jargon, web) A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
- coccineous — bright red
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- cocksiness — the state of being cocksy
- coconspire — (intransitive) To conspire together with.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- coexistent — Existing at the same time as something else.
- coexisting — to exist together or at the same time.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognisance — awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception: The guests took cognizance of the snide remark.
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- coiffeuses — Plural form of coiffeuse.
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- colestipol — a drug that reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood: used, together with dietary restriction of cholesterol, to treat selected patients with hypercholesterolaemia and so prevent atherosclerosis
- collegians — Plural form of collegian.
- collieries — Plural form of colliery.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- colloquies — a conversational exchange; dialogue.
- colonisers — Plural form of coloniser.
- colonizers — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- colorslide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- columbines — Plural form of columbine.
- combustive — the act or process of burning.
- come first — If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.